Health seekers', tourists' and sportsmen's guide to the sea-side, lake-side, foothill, mountain and mineral spring health and pleasure resorts of the Pacific Coast (Second Edition.)
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Chittenden, Newton H.
issued: 2017-10-10
issued: 1884
description: "Has a section on British Columbia (p.295-311)." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 74
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extent: 311 pages : illustrations (some folded), advertisements, tables, maps ; 23 cm
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note: The PALACE HOTEL, occupying the entire block in the center of San Francisco, is the model Hotel of the world. It has double the accommodations of any other hotel in the city. It is thoroughly fire and earthquake- proof, has broad, easy stairways, and five elevators. Every room is extra large, light and airy, The system of ventilation is periect, combining flue from fireplace, inlet flue for fresh air from outside, and outlet flue to the roof. A bath and closet adjoin every room. All rooms are easy of access from broad, light corridors, leading from the glass-covered court in the center of the building. The central court, illuminated by the electric light, its immense glass roof, broad balconies around it on every story, its carriage way and its tropical plants, is an attractive feature, one hitherto unknown in American Hotels. Guests entertained on either the American or European plan. The Restaurant is an adjunct to the Hotel, and is the finest in the city. Room with board, $3 per day; room with board, $4 per day; room without board, $1 per day and upwards. Lines of horse-cars, connecting directly with all principal streets, business centers, leading places of amusement or resort, and all notable localities, constantly traversing the entire city, even to its remotest suburbs, run within a minute's walk of the Palace. At the neighboring foot of the city's Grand Central Avenue, which passes directly under its northern front, are the stations and docks of the Great Overland Railway Terminus, with the piers and slips of the principal steam ferries, which swif tlv bridge the broad Bay in every habitable or pleasurable direction. A few blocks south lie the immense docks and basins of the P. M. S. S. Co., with their grand fleet of Trans-Papific Mail Steamships for the Sandwich Islands, China, Japan, Australia, India, and the nations of the Orient. Ninety-six thousand two hundred and fifty square feet, or nearly two and a quarter acres, underlie the stupendous structure it…
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has type: Guidebooks
identifier: F5804.3 .C54 1884
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0357206
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: San Francisco : C. A. Murdock & Co.
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subject: Health resorts--North America--Pacific Coast
subject: Resorts--North America--Pacific Coast
subject: Pacific Coast (North America)--Guidebooks
subject: Health resorts
subject: Resorts
subject: Pacific Coast (North America)
type: Text